Quality of life with positive psychology, While classical psychology aims for the person to become neutral from negative, positive psychology aims for the person to go from 0 to +. Üsküdar University NP Feneryolu Medical Center Specialist Clinical Psychologist Cemre Ece Gökpınar Çağlı told...
To concretize it with a current example; positive psychology is like a retrofitting work to be done on a building before an earthquake. Rather than rebuilding a destroyed house, it strengthens the existing one so that it will not collapse. With positive psychology, quality of life and empowerment of individuals also means increasing the quality of their lives.
We all strive to make our lives quality and enjoyable. We study, work, earn money, start a family, raise children...
Sometimes in this fast flow, we skip our main goal - a happy, quality life - and get into a rush. Mostly, while we are in this rush, we forget and fail to realize what we missed. As time passes, when we look back, we have actually only lived. We miss the difference between living and living well.
A person does not belong to a single field. For example, the only thing that defines us is not our profession, motherhood or fatherhood. It is all of these things that define us. We should not forget that we have a social side, a professional side, a child side and many other sides to our lives. Over time we start to see that we sacrifice some areas. For example, our social life in an effort to catch up with work, or our professional life so that I can be a good and competent mother. But the main thing is to be satisfied with one's life first and foremost. The goal of quality of life with positive psychology is to lead a quality life. Only when these conditions are met can one be a good mother, a good wife, a good employee, a good manager, a good friend. For example, if we remember the safety announcement made on airplanes; when there is any change in cabin pressure, we need to put the oxygen mask on ourselves first and then on our child. This doesn't mean that we care less about our child, it means that we need to be well before we can help those who need us.
In order to be enough for our environment, we need to achieve full and quality life satisfaction. As long as we are alive and well, we are able to keep up. It is quite normal for our priorities to change over time. It is of great importance in this direction that we all set goals in our lives that we try to achieve. Having a search for meaning in life will be an important motive to ensure that the person reaches satisfaction on the path he/she progresses in life. While doing this, the people we walk on this path will also be of great importance.
Our health, our family, our friends, our values, our virtues are all our companions. At this point, it is of great importance to realize which of our companions support us on this path and which ones slow us down and create obstacles from time to time.
With positive psychology, quality of life is about whether the important thing is to walk the road quickly and finish it, or to realize and enjoy all the beauties along the way. At the point where we see the difference between these two, we will start to walk a little more aware in order to increase our quality of life and satisfaction. Life contains more than one emotion at the same time. As well as being happy, being anxious, sad and afraid are also emotions related to life. We can accept and continue with all these emotions. Quality of life with positive psychology, one of the facts that will make life quality is to be able to make a meaningful transfer not only to ourselves but also to future generations, the society we live in, the environment we belong to, our profession. People can feel useful by turning their lives into a meaningful and quality life with what they produce. Now let's ask ourselves,
Am I just living the life I live, or am I living it with satisfaction, quality and awareness?
Uzm. Psk. Cemre Ece Gökpınar Çağlı